Considering the issues of the levels of studying the morphological structure of the quarry-dump complex of the northern slope of the Donetsk ridge

The article deals with the features of the development of the quarry-dump complexes as a separated subclass of the mining landscape. There are revealed the indentifying features of the morphological structure of the mining quarry-dump complexes of the Northern slope of the Donetsk Ridge. There are given the recommendations of studying the morphostructure of the quarry-dump complexes at the level of industrial landscape stows. There are presented the dominant types of the industrial landscape faces typical for the mining quarry- dump complexes of Donbass.